James Beard

James Beard

male, deceased (1985)
James Beard (May 5, 1903-January 21, 1985) was an American chef and food writer. James Beard is recognized by many as the father of American...

John Thorne

male
John Thorne is a culinary writer born in Quincy, Massachusetts who has written several best selling books on gastronomy. A college dropout, he...
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

male, deceased (1826)
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (April 1, 1755, Belley, France - February 2, 1826, Paris), a French lawyer and politician, was quite possibly the...

Alan Davidson

male, deceased (2003)
Alan Eaton Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the...
Bernard Loiseau

Bernard Loiseau

male, deceased (2003)
Bernard Loiseau was a French chef. He was born in Chamalières. He decided to become a chef as a teenager, apprenticing at the famous "restaurant T...
Craig Claiborne

Craig Claiborne

male, deceased (2000)
Craig Claiborne was a restaurant critic, food writer and former food editor of the "New York Times". He was the author of numerous cookbooks and an...
Nicholas Kurti

Nicholas Kurti

male, deceased (1998)
Professor Nicholas Kurti FRS (May 14,1908 - November 24, 1998) was an Hungarian-born physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life. Born...
Curnonsky

Curnonsky

male, deceased (1956)
Maurice Edmond Sailland (Angers, France October 12, 1872 - Paris, July 22, 1956), better known by his pen-name Curnonsky (nicknamed 'Cur'), and...

Plato

male
Plato (also Plato Comicus) was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty...

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

male, deceased (2003)
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humourist, critic, as well as...